Line #7 Creator/GiseleLagace


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2	Gisèle Lagacé (born June 16, 1970), often known as "Giz", is a French-Canadian {{webcomic\|s}} writer and artist who has worked on various titles, usually as the original creator or co-creator. She is part of the Pixie Trix Comix collective (after which one of her creations, ''Webcomic/PixieTrixComix'', is named).
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4	Giz was also the bassist with early '90s rock band Barbarella, and has done some work as a traditional comics artist, such as for ComicBook/ArchieComics and on ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW''. Her art style ''is'' often reminiscent of Archie Comics, which may be deliberate emulation or explain why she was hired by them, or both, though she sometimes also mixes in some MangaEffects. In 2023, she became the artist for ''ComicBook/MoneyShotComesAgain'', the miniseries that relaunched the comic title ''ComicBook/MoneyShot''.
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6	[[AC:Webcomics]]
7	* ''Webcomic/CoolCatStudio'' (2001–2002, 2007–2008) (Creator, Co-writer & Artist)
8	* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' (2004–2011) (Creator & 1st Artist)
9	* ''Ménage à 3'' universe
10	** ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' (2008–2019) (Creator, Co-writer & Artist)
11	** ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' (2011–2019) (Creator)
12	** ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' (2013–2019) (Creator, Writer & Artist)
13	** ''Webcomic/PixieTrixComix'' (2019–) (Creator, Co-writer & Artist)
14	* ''Eerie Cuties'' universe
15	** ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' (2009–2015) (Creator, Co-writer & Artist)
16	** ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'' (2011–2015) (Creator & Artist)
17	** ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'' (2012–2019) (Creator)
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19	[[AC:Comic Books]]
20	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' (art & covers)
21	* ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' (2015) (art & covers)
22	* ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' 2016 Creator/DynamiteEntertainment miniseries (art)
23	* ''ComicBook/{{Exorsisters}}'' (2018) (art)
24	* ''ComicBook/MoneyShotComesAgain'' (2023) (art)
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27	!!Tropes associated with Giz's work include:
28	* {{Animesque}}: Her art style can be best described as being similar to Archie Comics with some trademarks of manga mixed in.
29	* ArtEvolution: Giz's comics series sometimes run long enough for the developments in her personal drawing style to become quite obvious. The long gap between the initial run of ''Webcomic/CoolCatStudio'' and its eventual concluding story publication made the difference really glaring.
30	* ArtisticLicense: Giz tends to take a classic comics writer's ''relaxed'' approach to the finer details of realism. For example, she didn't research the subject before creating the one trans character in ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', whom she writes like a gay male drag queen.
31	* AuthorAppeal: One can only guess how much of Giz's work is based around stuff she likes, but she doesn't deny that there's some of this going on, and she has said that ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' was created as a SpinOff to give more spotlight time to a character who she liked but who was strictly supporting cast in ''Webcomic/MenageA3''.
32	* EveryoneIsBi: In any Giz comic, one should assume everyone is bisexual by default until they prove otherwise.
33	-->'''Dillon:''' ''[on the phone]'' What's that, Zii? You want '''''[[CampGay me]]''''' to teach you how to go down on a woman?\
34	'''Zii:''' ''[hanging up the phone]'' That was a dumb idea. [[LampshadeHanging Why can't he be bi like the rest of us?]]
35	* GenericCuteness: Giz seems to have some difficulty drawing an unattractive character who isn't an outright {{Gonk}}. There may be some FanService involved here, of course.
36	* GirlOnGirlIsHot[=/=]GuyOnGuyIsHot: Giz has created quite a few very visually attractive lesbian or bisexual characters, walking a line between sympathetic treatment of these orientations and fairly blatant FanService. ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' and ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' balance this with similar treatment of gay or bi male characters.
37	* KindheartedCatLover: Many, maybe most, of Giz's leading characters seem to end up with pets -- usually cats.
38	* MangaEffects: Giz has developed an undenied interest in manga over the years, which infiltrates her drawing style on occasion. For example, {{Chibi}} versions of characters may show up in insets.
39	* SexComedy: While only ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' and ''ComicBook/MoneyShotComesAgain'' are automatically defined as a sex comedy, most of Giz's light-hearted stories feature highly sexually active characters, and cheerfully wring plenty of comedy out of the subject.
40	* WriteWhatYouKnow: A notable number of Giz's characters are graphic artists or rock musicians, or both. One or two of them even look a bit like her.

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